In 2016, Elder won its sixth
state volleyball championship. Once again, it was an all-GCL final, with
Elder defeating the Moeller Crusaders in three sets. Moeller had defeated
the Panthers three times during the season.

In 2014, Elder won its fifth
state volleyball championship, defeating the St. Xavier Bombers in the finals.
The #1-ranked Bombers had defeated the Panthers twice during the regular season.

In 2010, Elder won its fourth state volleyball championship, defeating the
Moeller Crusaders in the finals having lost to the Crusaders in the state finals
in the previous year, and twice during the regular season.

In 2009, Orlando Scales won his second consecutive state wrestling championship
at 215 lbs.

In 2008, two Elder wrestlers won state championships: senior Tommy Pretty
in the 125-lb. class, and junior Orlando Scales in the 215-lb class. In
addition, the 2008 volleyball team won the school's third state volleyball
championship, completing a perfect 28-0 season.

In 2005, the Elder baseball team went 28-1
on the way to its 12th state baseball crown. The baseball team's championship continued a streak of at least one
baseball championship in each of the last 7 decades, dating back to
the school's first state championship in 1943. The team's 12 state
baseball championships is a State of Ohio record.

In 2003, Tim
Roa '03 won the
individual pole vault state championship. The football team also
completed its state championship defense with back-to-back titles,
the first by a local school since 1980.

In 2002, Elder won its first
state football championship, after four consecutive appearances in
the regional final, by defeating the teams they had faced in each of
the previous three regional championship games: St. Xavier, Wayne,
and Colerain. The team then defeated Findlay to reach the state final
for the first time in school history, and then defeated Warren
Harding to take the school's first state football
crown.

In 2000, the Elder volleyball
team won its second consecutive state championship, repeating the
consecutive state titles won in baseball (1955 and 1956, and 1958,
1959 and 1960), basketball (1973 and 1974), and cross country (1988
and 1989).

In 1999, two Elder teams won
state championships in their respective sports: baseball and
volleyball, a feat which had been accomplished twice before in the
school's history. (The school's baseball and basketball teams won
state championships in the 1972-73 school year, and the cross country
and basketball teams won in the 1973-74 school year.)

Individually,
seven Elder
athletes have won state championships in swimming, tennis, track and field, and
wrestling.

This page is a tribute to those
teams and individuals who have achieved excellence in their
respective sports.